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Meaning of "lisu"
Lisu refers to an ethnic minority group primarily living in southwestern China, Myanmar, and Thailand
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- A member of a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group inhabiting the mountainous regions of Yunnan (southwestern China), Arunachal Pradesh (northeastern India), northern Myanmar and Thailand.
- A tonal language spoken by the Lisu people.
- Of, from, or pertaining to the Lisu people or Lisu language.
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Lisu women are notable for their brightly colored dress.
I find the houses of Lisu full of charm.
Lisu women are remarked for their brightly colored dress.
The position of Lisu is not addressed.
Lisu worship of their ancestors and belief in animism and ghosts.
Sunday service in church is mainly in Lisu.
Lisu history is passed from one generation to the next in the form of songs.
After this visit we hike to a nearby Lisu village.
Lisu has many dialects that originate from the country in which they live.
The missionaries created Lisu literature the written language.
The Lisu are a people who love order and independence.
Christianity is now gradually becoming the dominant religion among the Lisu people.
This shrank the Lisu landholdings to a very small area.
One of the crops that brought most benefit to the Lisu tribe was opium cultivation.
The Lisu were chased out of their villages down to Gandhigram villages and other areas.
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Indian government discovers the Lisu.
You will find a few Lisu and Nu minority ladies still wearing their traditional dress.
Handbook of the Lisu language.
Lisu and Northern Bai are also spoken in the region.
From there you return to Lisu Lodge by local truck.
They officially are included with either the Yi people or the Lisu people.
Research done by Lisu scholars indicates that they moved to northwestern Yunnan.
It was designed for purpose of translating the New Testament into the Lisu language.
Lisu from southern China and Tibet are renowned for their colorful dress.
The celebrations for the festival are held in Lisu hamlets along the Nujiang River.
The Lisu Church has both the Bible and a hymn book in their own language.
A formerly stateless man from the Lisu hill tribe shows his ID card in northern Thailand.
Lisu pastors are trained at the Theological University of Kunming.
Some groups of Lisu took the then Ledo Road.
Lisu is one of the minority tribes of Arunachal Pradesh of India.
The Lisu hill.
Lisu subsistence was based on paddy fields, mountain rice, fruit and vegetables.
Indian Lisu issues.
The Lisu tribe can mostly be found near Chiang Rai.
Along with Lipo, it is one of two languages of the Lisu people.
Return to Lisu Lodge by a local truck.
The best things missionaries did were they created Lisu literature ( written language ).
Most of the Lisu who lived in Assam went back to Burma.
Even today, some Thai officials are scared to go into Lisu villages.
Only the Lisu of Thailand have remained unchanged by Christian influences.
Before the gospel reached to Lisu people, Lisu were animists.
Local Lisu people consider them their ancestors, calling them the wild men of the mountains.
About the Anong population, Naw is still mixed with the Lisu population.
Since then those Lisu living in the Namdapha area have been branded as " encroachers ".
They were thinking that I'm not true Lisu.
The Lisu people 's convert to Christianity was quick.
Missionaries had been working in the Lisu area since the early 20th century.
The Lisu people 's convert to Christianity was relatively fast.
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Lisu is one of the three Lolo tribes, the descendants of Yi.
